OWASP Contracts in Reading

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 85 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing OWASP 18 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.50% 0.37% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £610 - -
25th Percentile £625 £667 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £685 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% - -
75th Percentile - £702 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £567 £569
% change year-on-year +14.59% -0.26% -5.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,090 979 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.76% 91.24% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 649 821
10th Percentile £213 £365 £256
25th Percentile £404 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £653 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 10
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.50 £22.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +116.67% -31.03%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £60.89
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +7.23% +170.24% -2.37%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in Reading

OWASP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OWASP in Reading.

Daily rate trend for OWASP in Reading

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) IaaS
1 9 (50.00%) PaaS
1 9 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) 5G
1 9 (50.00%) Broadband
2 6 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) AppScan
2 1 (5.56%) Burp Suite
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Subversion
General
1 9 (50.00%) Law
1 9 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Penetration Tester
1 9 (50.00%) Security Penetration Tester
1 9 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 9 (50.00%) Security Tester
1 9 (50.00%) Tester
1 9 (50.00%) Testing Specialist
2 5 (27.78%) Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Security Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Development Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Security Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Mobile App
2 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Application Security
2 16 (88.89%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (72.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (66.67%) Security Testing
5 9 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 9 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (38.89%) Information Security
7 6 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
7 6 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (33.33%) Information Security Management
7 6 (33.33%) ITIL
7 6 (33.33%) Security Management
7 6 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
9 3 (16.67%) Agile
9 3 (16.67%) Budget Management
9 3 (16.67%) Budgeting
9 3 (16.67%) Capacity Management
9 3 (16.67%) Project Planning
9 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bash
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) SANS
2 9 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 9 (50.00%) GIAC
2 9 (50.00%) GPEN
2 9 (50.00%) OSCP
2 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) ISACA
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CSSLP
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (83.33%) GDPR
2 9 (50.00%) NCSC
2 9 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (33.33%) COBIT
3 6 (33.33%) NIST
4 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Graylog
1 1 (5.56%) HP Fortify
1 1 (5.56%) Nagios
1 1 (5.56%) Nessus
1 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) Puppet
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Veracode